New business in our old location is showing up in map listing for our search results

I represent Sparrow Stylin' Salon, a business that moved from 1309 22nd St, Denver, CO 80205 to 403 16th St Ste 300, Denver, CO A new salon opened up at our old address. Now when you search for Sparrow Stylin' Salon the new business "The Edge Salon and Boutique" shows up as our map listing and has our salon reviews listed as their salon reviews.

We have verified our new address through Google Business (via postcard code), indicated we moved and updated all of our new business information.

While having them show up as our map listing is bad enough, having reviews we have gained over the years attributed to them is heartbreaking.

Searching for this red query "Sparrow Stylin' Salon" Denver 80202 I get you correctly - while searching for the slightly different red query (note the missing quotes) Sparrow Stylin' Salon Denver 80202 I get the "The Edge Salon and Boutique" despite of the fact the "edge salon" is at a different ZIP: Denver 80205

Question: when did you moved and when did you create and veified the listing for your new address?

New business in our old location is showing up in map listing for our search results

So what I would assume happened is that The Edge Salon and Boutique verified your old location and just updated the business name + phone number. Thus they would have kept all your reviews. Before assuming that and escalating this for Google to fix, can you confirm a couple things:

1. Did you ever verify/claim your listing at your old address when you guys were there? If not, it was probably sitting around unverified and it could be easy for the new business to claim it since they get mail at the address.

2. When you moved, did you change phone #s or keep the same one? If you changed phone #s, please list the old phone number.

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